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Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Gemma 3n E4b IT

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemma 3n E4b IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 37.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Gemma 3n E4b IT Google

37.3

Rank #206 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 3n E4b IT in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 70.4 to 66.1.
  • Gemma 3n E4b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3n E4b IT
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.837.3
Released2025-02-05—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3218

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Coding13221268
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts13241284
Kagi LLM Benchmark—31.5%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Math13091251
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Expert13051246
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Gemma 3n E4b IT: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Non-English13231285
LMArena Chinese13391309
LMArena French13471330
LMArena German13061311
LMArena Japanese13011272
LMArena Korean13251259
LMArena Russian13281288
LMArena Spanish13131305

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Instruction Following13051255
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Longer Query13201276

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Text13301306
LMArena Creative Writing13191287
LMArena Multi-Turn13071276
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Gemma 3n E4b IT?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemma 3n E4b IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.8 vs 37.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Gemma 3n E4b IT better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (37.9 vs 37.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemma 3n E4b IT share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18.

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